BIO102L: Introduction to Evolutionary Biology and Ecology Lab

Unit 5: SpeciationThis unit will cover the topic of speciation in more depth than the
lecture portion of your course, detailing specific examples of
speciation and researchers’ efforts to identify how this speciation
occurred. It will also provide you with opportunities to test your own
understanding of the process and put forth your own most-likely
hypotheses.

Unit 5 Time Advisory
This unit should take you approximately 1.5 hours to complete.

Unit5 Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this unit, the student will be able to:
- Describe the various types of speciation and under what situations
they might occur.

Interactive Lab: University of Wisconsin’s Interactive Lessons in
Biology: “Species and Speciation”
Link: University of Wisconsin’s Interactive Lessons in Biology:
“Species and
Speciation” (HTML,
Adobe Flash)

Instructions: Go through each of these three topics (discovering
species, patterns of speciation, and the importance of being
species), answering questions and making use of the interactive
tools. Please note that to move through pages within a topic, you
must use the small arrows within the shaded screen, while to move
from one topic to the next, you must use the red-brown arrows on the
lower right outside the shaded area.

Terms of Use: Please respect the copyright and terms of use
displayed on the webpage above.